The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-30
What Became Of Uncle ia.
cob's Quitting,
New York Witness.

into the garden where / was at work.
TOO bad to spoil such nice break
lasts IS your Mary gets"
''NNhy, Uncle Jacob" said l, II was
brought up to earn my breakfast be.
fore | ate it,"
Tut, tur, man didn't mean
working in the pure air"
What them"
Its that nasty pipe that is spoil.
ing Gods sweet air for you. Spoils
your appetite, too. I know all
about it. / never had a good
breakfast for twenty years, though
your Aunt Rachel is the
best cook you ever saw. / used to
tnd fault with my victuals and tell
wife they didn't Staste like mothers.
The patient soul bore it all meekly
Tor years, but one morning said: 'Ja-
cob, did it never come into your mind
that the difference between your
mothers cooking and mine lays in
that pipe? You didn't smoke when
you ate her food. / try hard
as can to suit you, but you mix so
much tobacco juice and smoke with
the victuals that it spoils it ALL"
II didn't say anything, because
there wasn't nothing to say; out |
kept thinking, yes, and smoking, too,
for awhile, but ! didn't find m more
tault with your aunt's cooking.
One day, while l was down
East for q spell, l was thinking
what | could carry home to Rachel.
1t kept coming into my mind that the
thing she would like best would be a
husband with pure breath and clean
lips. So, with a mighty effort and a
prayer for help / said: ri do it. 'PH
quit now and forever, so help me
Godl,
did your" said /, taking my own
meerschaum from my mouth.
''Quit2" said he, ard d. it after I
made up my mind to it if it killed me
that's your Uncle Jacob. There was
Fan old lady moved from our neighbor-
hood, who lived right on the road
where ! was travelling. She'd known
me from q boy. / went to her and |
says, says |, Aunt Polly, / want to
make you a present. Pm going to
give you my Pipe and tobacco The
old lady smoked. knew she never
would quit, and ] couldn't quite bear
to throw the pipe away, I'd had it so
long.
What iur?' says she.
"Oh, Pm goingt to quit, Aunt Polly
"tQuit2' says she. why, Jacob
Gay, it will kin you! You can't do
it..
"'see II don't says ! /, and / rode
away.
"It's been twenty years and I.
haven't been back after it yet. And
it didn't kill me either" said Uncle
Jacob, throwing back his broad
shoulders, and striking his deep chest,
and showing his teeth sound and
white, in spite of his seventy years.
Didn't you banker after, your
pipe?" ] asked.
"Hanker! Tain't no word for it.
Fact is, | don't believe there's any
word strong enough. But I'd made
mp my mind. / was crosser than ten
bears, and / didn't dare to go home
for three weeksfor fear Ishouid abuse
Rachsl."
What did Aunt Rachel say when
you told her?"
IL never said nothin' about it at
first. but / didn't smoke. If she no.
ticed it she didn't let on, the first day.
The second day, after dinner, she
said, Jacob, seems to me / haven't
seen you smoke since you got home.
You amt sick, or nothing, be your
Does your business trouble your
said the kind old soul, anxiously.
-. .Peh : said |; I'VE always smoked
after / ate for thirty years
"tBut I'm sure | haven't seen you
nor smelt tobacco,
Go an look in my other clothes,
Rachel, and see il you don't find my
pipe and tobacco
"She went rummaging away for
awhile and at last said.
Where be they. Jacob she looked
so %astonished that said,
Well, Rachel, you needn'tlook for
'em no more / felt the pesky things
down IN Burnham that's a good
place for'em}. You and Iwillnever see
'em again. I've quit. Hahn tsmoked
for three weeks and don't mean TO
for all time You should have seen
your aunt's face light sp. She kinder
sided up to me and said:
Jacob Gayl ! must sayl' and
then she kissed me, a thing she didn't
often do. 'Spects she didn't like the
smell OF my breath. | tell you, Rach-
el's cooking was tip-top after that.
.I,sse had good realSifaast s fer ttwef4 ttyf
year. to bad taste in my mouth.
Don't need to do anything to
get up an appetite. Rachels
cooking is as good as mother s,
and better. too.You can't think how
pleased sssSghen ] praise it, seeing
| was on the other track SO long.
There's the breakfast bell. Come,
nephew, throw away that old pipe
and let's go in and tell Mary"
II won't allow that my Uncle ia
cob has stronger will power than !.
What he can do his nephew ought" |
said. 'If he can stopsmoking / can't"
"But don't forget where The strength
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